Genuine Boaty Dilemma

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At the end of the Chentlemans Cruise we were sailing into Loch Melfort under full Main and Genoa - bowling along with the wind on the beam and we decided to do a bit of tidying up. We needed to getaway quickly with all of us having to face the long drive home. With Parahandy on board we should really have started this process last Friday morning but at least I now have another three pairs of socks, a delightful pink shirt and some Yfronts of a rather questionable vintage.
I was at the mast and dropped the Burgees then went back to take down the Ensign
Discussion ensued as to the correct order of doing this - can anyone advise?
 
Which sunset would that be then, there's more than one and I'm certain Claysie widnae want tae get it wrang .. erm I mean wrong!
 
hmm - yes I see that - but we had to get home and Dear Heart would not have been best pleased with me dragging my weary carcass over the doorstep at 3 in the morning because I'd waited for the sun to set before dropping the ensign.
So - original question stands - at the end of cruise do the burgees come down first, or the ensign, or is there no specified procedure. (I'd find that hard to believe!)
 
Nah, if your British you should use the ensign like a Royal Standard to show you are on board or down for the weekend. It goes up Friday night and down Sunday evening.

This is the accepted practice for leisure boats.
 
Surely the ensign denotes that your aboard if its up. So my rya bloke told me many moons ago. So the ensign last to come down. I thought the sundown bit was from the RN?
 
Ensign: I always understood it was either at sunset (as stated before) or just before Master is leaving Vessel....

That's more or less the Dutch rule anyway....

Heard somefin about dipping too, but that's a different issue all together I think...

We leave bungees up, but tight Scotsmen might prefere to drop 'em again unneeded wear and tear. In that case the order would be bungees-ensign???
 
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Jings - Et wid hef bein braw ra nicht
Oh my Lord - It would have been wonderful last evening

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Don't you teach English?

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Don't know. don't care..... I went sailing at the weekend and only remembered that I had not put up the ensign or the burgees when I came to my berth at the end of the weekend..Nothing terrible happened, no police waiting at the dockside, no RYA official waiting to drag me over the coals - guess I was just lucky......
 
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Bit like undies really

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Wear and tear regarding undies is mostly due to washing, so I turn them inside-out on a regular base.

What is quite interesting is that you have another Ensign question that hasn't been asked before. This contradicts Jimi's earlier topic question.
 
Re: Grundies ...

wull ... as youse only use the burgee hoist to dry them ah cannae see whits the problem ...
 
Re: Grundies ...

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Whats a burgee?

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Example:

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Hope to have understood it myself.... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Aha ... there's a civil sunset and a nautical twilight. I think the nautical twilight's probably mair erm I mean more appropriate do'nt you?
 
Steve, the only time you are required to fly an ensign is when entereing a foreign port.

Frank
 
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